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The Country Where Everyone’s Name Is Fear

Selected Poems

By Boris Khersonsky and Luidmila Khersonsky. Edited by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky

Boris Khersonsky and Ludmila Khersonsky write poetry that speaks to the crisis of our time, when refugees run from bombardments, nonstop propaganda flows from TV, and neighbors begin to hate their neighbors. The setting is...

Dream Bridge

Selected Poems

By Oleh Lysheha. Translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps

In this collection, Oleh Lysheha creates worlds in which horses drawn on Paleolithic caves speak their truths and the glance of a swan can transform a lost soul. Each poem leads us down an invisible...

In Memory of a Banyan Tree

Poems of the Outside World, 1985–2022

By Michael Rothenberg

In Memory of a Banyan Tree is a collection of poems relating to nature, ecology, and ecopoetics, selected from the expanse of Rothenberg's writings over the past thirty-five years. Rothenberg's many years as a horticulturist...

Three Wooden Trunks

By Virlana Tkacz

Virlana Tkacz’s Three Wooden Trunks is a collection of poems about memory, the poet’s Ukrainian roots, and the poet’s family’s pursuit of a sweeter, easier life in America.

Masquerade

By Carolyne Wright

Masquerade is a jazz-inflected, lyric-narrative sequence of poems, a “memoir in poetry” set principally in pre-Katrina New Orleans and in Seattle, involving an interracial couple who are artists and writers. Moved by mutual fascination, shared...

Seed Wheel

By Kathryn Hunt

Seed Wheel is a lyric grown from the taut, ardent beauty of simple speech that seeks a way through the broken places in the ground of our imagination. The past and the present abide in...

Apricots of Donbas

By Poems by Lyuba Yakimchuk. Translated by Oksana Maksymchuk, Max Rosochinsky and Svetlana Lavochkina

Apricots of Donbas is a bilingual collection by award-winning contemporary Ukrainian poet Lyuba Yakimchuk. Born and raised in a small coal-mining town in Ukraine’s industrial east, Yakimchuk lost her family home in 2014 when the...

Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow

By Natalka Bilotserkivets. Translated by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky

Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow brings together a selection of Natalka Bilotserkivets’s poetry from the last four decades. Having established an English-language following largely on the merits of a single poem, Bilotserkivets’s larger body...

Where We Arrive

By Thomas Mitchell

In his third collection of poetry, Thomas Mitchell celebrates life more powerfully and more enthusiastically than ever before, reaffirming our connectedness with one another and with the natural world. His work is marked with a...

Ticker

By Mark Neely

Mark Neely’s third collection, Ticker, follows the life of its main character, Bruce, as he navigates marriage, children, aging parents, politics, race, religion, global catastrophe, and the irrelevance of middle age. Throughout the book the...

Carbon

By Svetlana Lavochkina

Donetsk, the black gem of Ukraine—Eden and Sodom in one, a stew steaming with coal fever, Manifest Destiny of Europe’s east: Svetlana Lavochkina sends readers on a double odyssey with two adventurers, the fiery blacksmith...

Mountain and Flower

The Selected Poems of Mykola Vorobiov

By Mykola Vorobiov. Translated by Maria G. Rewakowicz

Mountain and Flower is Mykola Vorobiov’s second book in English translation. Translator Maria Rewakowicz presents a selection of poems spanning more than fifty years of Vorobiov’s poetic craft, beginning with poems from his first collection...

My Mother’s Red Ford

New and Selected Poems (1986–2019)

By Roy Bentley

My Mother’s Red Ford represents Roy Bentley’s first six books, four of which won or distinguished themselves in national competitions. According to Kate Fox, writing of Walking with Eve in the Loved City: “Readers of...

The River People

By Polly Buckingham

The poems in Polly Buckingham’s debut collection, The River People, move through both dream and natural landscapes exploring connection and loss, abundance and degradation, the personal and the political. The speaker in these poems is...

Sleeping and Waking

By Albert Goldbarth

Though the Walls Are Lit

By Emily Holt

Though the Walls Are Lit considers the Irish tradition of hunger strikes and vocal lament. Weaving together hymns, canticles, and blues riffs, Holt configures the page as a threshold where poet and stranger may meet...

Neighborhood of Gray Houses

By Derek Annis

The poems in Derek Annis’s debut collection, Neighborhood of Gray Houses, wander through a landscape darkened by childhood abandonment and loss, before coming to rest in a home illuminated by new life and cautious optimism....

Don't Touch the Bones

By Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

Winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry 2019.

Rich in detail, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s Don’t Touch the Bones is a compelling collection that examines the pain of the world’s, a nation’s, and a family’s history.

A New Orthography

Poems

By Serhiy Zhadan. Translated by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin

A New Orthography by Serhiy Zhadan is the fifth volume in Lost Horse Press’s Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. In these poems, the poet focuses on daily life during the Russo-Ukrainian war, rendering intimate portraits of...

Pray to the Empty Wells

By Iryna Shuvalova. Translated by Olena Jennings

Pray to the Empty Wells is a bilingual collection of poems by award-winning contemporary Ukrainian author Iryna Shuvalova. The forty-four poems reflect the central section of Shuvalova’s forthcoming book of Ukrainian-language poems of the same...